To understand Japanese lifestyle and culture, The Japan Foundation holds the first ever product design exhibition in New Delhi titled Japanese Design Today 100. The exhibition is meant to give an insight into Japanese day to day life through design.
Date: 6th to 15th February
Venue: The Japan Foundation
Time: Monday-Sunday 12 pm - 8 pm.
Professor Hiroshi Kashiwaga has curated 100 objects keeping in mind the diversity in various areas of everyday life, from digital to craft, from serious to humorous products. Some of the products displayed are: foldable chair, Riki stool, Qualia 016 is a small miniature digital camera, Telephone 610” has a very simple design for a Japanese telephone, butterfly stool, soya bottle, Tatami Mats etc.
Hiroshi Kashiwagi is a Design Critic, Professor of Modern Design History at Musashino Art University. Born in 1946. Graduated from Musashino Art University. Engaged in an analysis of modernity as embodied in design. He has organized numerous exhibitions, including the Ikko Tanaka Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2003 and Fantaisies Cybernetiques at The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris, 2003-2004. Publications include Modan dezain hihan（Critique of Modern Design）, Iwanami Shoten, 2003, “Shikiri” no Bunkaron (Cultural Study of "Partations"), Kodanshsya, 2004. A member of the exhibit selection committee for the traveling exhibition, Japanese Design Today 100, 2004, organized by the Japan Foundation.
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